Noble Failure Anticipated, avoided, learned from VadiK Inventor Author Founder   Failure is a friend of homo thinking and an enemy of a homo emotional. Disruptive success is 99% failure forward. ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   Noble Failure defined A noble failure is a failure forward that occurred regardless all efforts to anticipate and avoid it, it is a valuable feedback that is treated as great learning opportunity and a stepping stone to success.       Noble Failure as a Primary Vehicle for Success       Noble failure provides a great learning opportunity and should be viewed as a very lifeblood of success. In innovation and change efforts, it is only by trying lots of initiatives that you can improve your chances that one of them will be a real breakthrough.     Intelligent failure provides a great learning opportunity and leads to success. It is through seeming failures and turning failures to opportunities that most of greatest successes are achieved. It is by trying lots of disruptive initiatives that you can improve your chances that one of them will be a star.     Freedom To Fail Forward Innovators, intrapreneurs  and change leaders must have freedom to experiment and, naturally, freedom to fail because experimentation is about moving into an unknown territory. Freedom to fail forward means a freedom to explore, venture, experiment and succeed in uncharted territory... More   Failing Forward Failure as a Stepping Stone to Success Freedom To Fail Learning SWOT Questions       Differentiate Between a Noble and a Stupid Failure       Charles Schwab pioneered seamless stock trading on Internet in 1996 and grew from a small firm to the World's leader. David Pottruck, a  legendary leader of Charles Schwab, says: "The idea that failure is okay is ridiculous. I am not going to go around the company and reward someone for failing. But here at Schwab we differentiate between noble failure and stupid failure."   In radical innovation, every step forward is a step into terra incognita where failures are teachers and opportunities are guides VadiK Inventor Author Founder   Questions to prevent stupid errors Questions to prevent stupid errors focus on establishing facts, analyzing causes, understanding desired outcomes, and developing preventative measures. Key questions include: "What happened?" to establish facts, "What was supposed to happen?" to define the goal, "What led to the error?" to identify causes, and "How can we prevent this from happening again?" to create a future solution... More   His Majesty QUESTION Awakening Questions Coaching Questions 5 Why Questions Examples   One World, One Way, Many Paths Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved. Lao Tzu Success is 99% failure. Soichiro Honda I have not failed 700 times. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. Thomas Edison Encourage people to take risk. Make sure that people aren't afraid of the possibility of failure, do a lot of experiments and learn from failures. Michael Dell< Fail thoroughly to learn more. Kseniya I don't learn from failures because I want to make my fate laugh. Dennis You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. Richard Branson Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford Many costly Microsoft product failures provided the learning and opportunity for development of many of Microsoft's biggest successes. Bill Gates Microsoft Failure is a friend only when you can see a business opportunity. Peter Chikumba You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy. Robert Kiyosaki The only measure of success or failure in life is whether you end up in heaven or hell. Kotfucius